I have built a plugin that displays a table using the WP_List_Table class.
The table displays entries on which it's possible to apply a filter and some bulk actions.

The problem is that is that when I click on the "filter" button or "apply bulk action" button multiple times, the _wp_http_referer paramater is added to the URL and keeps being longer and longer each time I click on the button.

Eventually the URL is so long that I get a blank page in the browser with the following error message:

Request-URI Too Large
The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.

I think I have set up the filter and bulk action select menus properly inside a simple form tag: